jiminikrikitz April 1st, 2009 01:44PM  
I don't have a full interpretation of this song, but I do have some ideas about where this song is 'heading' or the picture that it's supposed to be painting.

The song is actually 'Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)'. You sense that the people in the song are on the road during a period of war or unrest.

There are rural elements of the tune, which include wagons, train spike's, etc.

The line that I find most fascinating is the verse...

'Well the last thing I remember before they stripped and kneeled was a train load of fools born down in a magnetic field.'

I believe that when he states 'stripped and kneeled', he is talking about people that were held up at gunpoint, and were forced to strip themselves of their clothes and kneel down before being killed.

While there is no clear meaning of this song, I sense that the singer is in the role of a murderer, perhaps among many, and not the leader of his 'gang of killers.' He is singing to the leader, the senor, who has gone overboard in his violence, and the singer is now wishes to get done with whatever task they have embarked on, desiring to 'turn over these tables, disconnect these cables.' He wishes to complete the dastardly task at hand, the burglary, the cover up, or whatever the plan was from the beginning, which has clearly gone haywire from it's original intention.

m320753 April 6th, 2009 10:42AM  
this song is a tough nut to crack . i find myself just listening to it for pure enjoyment of the phrasing of words . the opening verse blows me away senor ,senor can you tell me where were heading, lincoln county road or armaggedon. i also like the way he makes a word his own. take the way he sings suspence, susssss pence any more. he does that in other songs also which makes him unique (see changing of the guard, ) every time you get a bootleg he sings the same songs differantly from one night to the next. that;s what dylan dylan